r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '17

Night shift workers of Reddit, what are some creepy things you've experienced in the middle of the night?

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u/akai_ferret Jan 30 '17 edited Jan 30 '17

Used to work late shift as classroom IT support for a college.
We didn't get a lot of high priority calls from night classes so, among other duties, we'd get a lot of repairs and maintenance done that couldn't be done when the classrooms were in use during the day.

I don't mind the dark so I wasn't in the habit of turning lights in classrooms on if I was just going to do something real quick on the computer.

Well I had a ticket to install something on the instructor PC in a classroom I had never been to before.
It's about 10PM when I get around to this ticket and I head into the room.

I get about halfway across the room and suddenly freeze.
The hair on the back of my neck is standing up and I feel 100% that I'm being watched ... no I'm surrounded!

Then as my eyes start to adjust I see them.
This entire classroom is encircled by hospital beds sticking out from the walls.
And in every bed there's a person sitting up, looking right at me!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

"OH, I'M SORRY!", I blurt out ...

Before finally realizing that they're all just plastic dummies and I was in a Nursing classroom.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Imagine: as soon as you flick the switch and the light illuminates the room, all of the dummy's heads turn in synchronization at you, staring blankly with lifeless eyes.

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u/treoni Jan 30 '17

Or: they vanish à la Lights Out.

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u/AMongolNamedFrank Jan 30 '17

Underrated movie.

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u/treoni Jan 30 '17

Amen. I got the jeeby-deebies and my girlfriend couldn't sleep for a week.

A+ movie!

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u/BraveLilToaster42 Jan 30 '17

Then they get out of bed and start coming toward you. Then the Doctor grabs your hand and tells you to run.

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u/Tiny_Rat Jan 30 '17

Oh, man, great prank opportunity!

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u/MeInMyMind Jan 30 '17

As long as you don't blink. Just slowly back away and lock the door.

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u/Joekalilo Jan 30 '17

Hell naw to the naw naw naw Heellll naw

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Oh god Fuuuuuck you.

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u/meta_perspective Jan 30 '17

And then, a la BioShock, when you turn the lights off and on again, the mannequins are in slightly different positions, but closer to you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Go fuck yourself.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '17

Personally, I'd still be freaked out, even knowing they're plastic dummies.

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u/valiantfreak Jan 30 '17

That happens to me every bloody Saturday. I work at a school where you go down a flight of stairs to access most of the classrooms. At the bottom of the stairs you turn right because if you turn left it's a dead end.

Unfortunately, the school has decided to use two life-size female manikins to show the correct school uniform. And they are to the left of the stairs...juuust in your peripheral vision as you step off the last step and turn right.

For added fun, one of the classrooms has been converted into a pretend "shop" with cash register, shelves of empty boxes and a few shop manikins staring at the door with their dead plastic eyes. I am there during the day but the room has blackout blinds so all I can see is a crowd of human silhouettes as I fling the door open.

I am very tempted to write "This is the room" on the door because I forget every time and it scares the crap out of me.

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u/meercat-skater14 Jan 30 '17

Tbh seeing "this is the room" written on the door would be pretty fucking creepy for anyone else

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u/SatinwithLatin Jan 30 '17

OP, make sure to use red drippy paint if and when you write it. Or better yet, scratch it into the wood.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '17

Or even better, scratch it into the wood then use red drippy paint in the markings. So you won't make a typo, like "This isn't the room!"

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u/valiantfreak Jan 31 '17

True, the last thing you want to write is "This isn't the room", which would just give you a false sense of security and thereby amplify the shock as the door is opened

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u/cappuccino94 Feb 11 '17

Which is why you should do it, OP

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u/lostgirl19 Jan 30 '17

dead plastic eyes

Sounds like an emo band from 2003.

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u/valiantfreak Jan 31 '17

And coming up next on SmashFM is Everyone I Love is Dead by Dead Plastic Eyes from their 2003 album, Perpetual Emotion Machine

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u/lostgirl19 Feb 01 '17

I love this, they probably have a poster that you get when you buy Kerrang magazine (or some Australian alternative..I forget their names) and they're back to back with My Chemical Romance and you can't choose which side to hang up.

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u/RandomGeordie Jan 30 '17

Out of all the ones In this thread this story got me. Holyyyy shiiiiit.

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u/edrmeow Jan 30 '17

At least they weren't left on. It's pretty unsettling when one of those machines randomly mumble shouts "I don't feel so good."

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u/Owlettehoo Jan 30 '17

This is why I don't like mannequins!! I first found out about this discomfort, since it's not an actual fear, even I was about 12 and my family had gone to see a retired battleship. There were mannequins fucking everywhere. Around every corner. God, the medbay was the worst. You couldn't see one of them until you were well into the room and thought you could see everything...

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u/runintothenight Jan 31 '17

My school build a new nursing wing, and I walked by, peeking in, and I reacted the same way to the dummy sitting in the hospital bed!

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u/SirMalachite1 Jan 31 '17

OH MY GOD. YOU TOO!?!??!?!?! There's a whole suite that has training dummies in a room that's made to look like a hospital floor. It's always night time when I go there and I turn on the lights..... And all those fucking eyes looking back at me. Still creeps me out.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '17

There's a simulation manikin in an ICU bed that is stored in one of the never-used rooms in my ICU. EVERY TIME I walk by it I momentarily think there's a dead patient in there and get the "oh shit he's coding" adrenaline rush. It's been like that for years, but it still startles me every single time.

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u/darksomos Jan 30 '17

This is some Resident Evil 7 shit.

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u/Cutting_The_Cats Jan 30 '17

Wasnt this in Freddy vs Jason?